Miss Pronouncy Nation

[screenman]

Sweeping statements, I hate them as you may have noticed by the way I react to them on this forum.

As for grammar, I was born thick and irresponsible and seem to be making a good job of staying that way.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

People who pronounce Ikea as "Eye-kea"

I don't know anyone who pronounces it any other way.

 

[vernon]

The world of humour would be a poorer place without the contributions of mispronunciation.

The miserable gits* who complain about mispronunciation would have to move on to complaining about how other cyclists don't wave to them or some thing of equal importance if perfect pronunciation became the norm.

*I'm not sure how gits* is pronounced: twats? daffodils? arses?

 

[Cuchilo]

Grown men that say hello and then want to punch your fist

 

[Fab Foodie]

I don't know anyone who pronounces it any other way.

Yeah you do ....

 

[Fab Foodie]

Any one for a Expresso?

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Yeah you do ....

I don't, we might be poncey up the posh end of the county but even we'd wince at that one.

 

[Fab Foodie]

I don't, we might be poncey up the posh end of the county but even we'd wince at that one.

Well the intelligencia around the county's capital are well versed in this one ....

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

i hate it when people mispronunciounciate things.

a particularly common one is "Shwalbee" tyres. come on, it's got to be "Shvalba" surely?

I'd go for Shvalbuh: even though it is an 'e' sound at the end we don't have any way of representing that sound actually using an e at the end of a word in fnetix..

There's a point where it really seems pointless in using the original pronunciation. I had a Citroën - with an Oh-Enn at the end - which became a Citron again after I picked it up from the Citron garage. They'd serviced the spelling for free.

And I still don't know how to pronounce Topeak, because people say it differently. tuh-PEAK, to-PEAK, TOP-eek. When my pump dies I've thought about going for a Lezyne. But is it LezEEN or LezINE...?

Here's a little curiosity: if you ask someone how the word ''of'' is pronounced, they'll say ''ov''. But after telling you it's ''ov'' they'll then go on to pronounce it invariably as ''uv'' in speech.

 

[Drago]

I must say, I am impressed with everyone's grammatical and oratory prowess.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Plice. BBC version of police.

But then I'm not about to start calling Paris 'Paree' in everyday English conversation for the sake of authenticity, so if folk wan eye-bee-tha rather than ee-bee-tha that's cool with me.

Property porn presenters on the telly though. Aaaaagh! Clangothlen. Clanethly. If you can manage a decent stab at 'll' in the middle of the word why the hell can't you make the same sound at the beginning? Clangoclen anyone? The Clanecly Scarlets good rugby? Fair play though, I draw the line at Machynlleth.

And, anyone who uses the word 'hubby'. Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

That's better!.

 

[Crackle]

I don't know anyone who pronounces it any other way.

Ich as in ichy as in shitty. Or, I'm not going there, even for the meatballs.

 

[Turbo Rider]

Plice. BBC version of police.

But then I'm not about to start calling Paris 'Paree' in everyday English conversation for the sake of authenticity, so if folk wan eye-bee-tha rather than ee-bee-tha that's cool with me.

Property porn presenters on the telly though. Aaaaagh! Clangothlen. Clanethly. If you can manage a decent stab at 'll' in the middle of the word why the hell can't you make the same sound at the beginning? Clangoclen anyone? The Clanecly Scarlets good rugby? Fair play though, I draw the line at Machynlleth.

And, anyone who uses the word 'hubby'. Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

That's better!.

Welsh is a great language though. I was brought up there and went to a Welsh speaking school so my proNUNciation is spot on, in spite of the southern accent I've aquired. Going back is amazing, because you go to the valleys and...well...you know *Welsh people only speak Welsh to each other when there's English people around* and I'm all clued in on that so I like to stun them by dipping in and out of it, mixing both lanuages together. Faces drop. Sooooooo much fun. Love Wales


*Massive generalisation...though holds truth to a massive degree.

 

[Drago]

I was brought up there and went to a Welsh speaking school so my pronounciation is spot on...

Except when pronouncing 'proNUNciation'.

 

[Slioch]

I discovered that I've been mispronouncing Sram for years. I've always said ess-ram, however some frightfully helpful chappie in a LBS kindly advised me that the correct pronunciation is sss-ram.